Informal term for any attempt to block or delay Senate action on a bill or other matter by debating it at length, by offering numerous procedural motions, or by any other delaying or obstructive actio [..]

A form of legislative obstruction by an MP by continuing a parliamentary speech for the mere sake of preventing a vote. As the clerk of parliament will set an agenda calendar allocating certain bills for certain days, if the business of reading, debating and voting on one bill is not completed on its allotted day it may be a considerable period of [..]

A time-delaying tactic associated with the Senate and used by a minority in an effort to delay, modify or defeat a bill or amendment that probably would pass if voted on directly. The most common meth [..]

1853 in the freebooting sense, from filibuster (n.). Legislative sense is from 1861. Related: Filibustered; filibustering.

1580s, flibutor "pirate," especially, in history, "West Indian buccaneer of the 17th century" (mainly French, Dutch, and English adventurers), probably ultimately from Dutch vrijbu [..]

the use of long speeches or other tactics in Parliament to delay deliberately a vote or decision

A procedural maneuver used to obstruct a bill in the U.S. Senate. A filibuster occurs when a senator who is engaged in debate refuses to yield the floor, thus preventing a roll call vote from taking p [..]

n. One who attempts to obstruct legislation.

A Spanish word for pirate. Trust them to have a fancy word for it.

An attempt by a Senator or group of Senators to obstruct the passage of a bill, favored by the majority, by talking continuously. Because there is no rule in the Senate over how long a member can speak, a Senator can prevent a bill from coming up for a vote by talking endlessly. Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina set the record in 1957 by spe [..]

An informal term for extended debate or other procedures used to prevent a vote on a bill in the Senate.

In the U.S. Senate, members are permitted to speak indefinitely on a subject to avoid a vote.  Only with 60 votes can the Senate vote to invoke cloture, thus ending debate on voting.  Then U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC) holds the record for the longest filibuster.  He spent 24 hours and 18 minutes filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

The prolonged discussion of a bill to delay legislative action.

The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speech making, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.

the use of extreme dilatory tactics in an attempt to delay or prevent action esp. in a legislative assembly ;also : an instance of this practice

A filibuster is a process senators use to block measures or legislation. It is a parliamentary tactic. For a filibuster to be stopped 60 votes are required. It has recently been used by Democrats to b [..]

An obstructive tactic consisting of the use of various methods to delay the business of the House or of a committee.

(n) (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches(v) obstruct deliberately by delaying(n) a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legisl [..]

A piratical adventurer. The most notorious was William Walker, who was shot in 1855. (French, flibustier, a corruption of our “freebooter;” German, freibeuter; Spanish, filibustero; [..]

A tactic in which a Senator holds the floor for an extended period of time in order to delay or prevent a vote on an issue. A filibuster cannot occur in the House of Representatives since speaking time is limited.

Originally, a buccaneer. Now applied to any lawless adventurer.

  From the Dutch for 'vrybuiter'

(1) From the Dutch for 'vrybuiter' (freebooter) translated into French as 'flibustier'. The term originated from the Buccaneers known in England as filibusters who would stop saili [..]

A word used to describe the practice of talking for a long time to delay voting on a bill in parliament.